Rio Quotes - Page 2

• Johannesburg is weird, because half of it is like Los Angeles. It feels like just wealthy parts of L.A. But half of it is severe slummy, something like Rio De Janiero or something. So it's kind of weird, because it's both happening at the same time.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Half, Kind, Los Angeles

  "Q&A: Sci-Fi Director Neill Blomkamp Describes Life in District 9 As No Picnic". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

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• I have to go to her, Lucan. For my own sanity, if nothing else. If I stay here, I'm not sure what good I'd be, to tell you the truth. She's the only thing that's held me together in a very long time. I'm a wreck for this woman, my friend. She owns me now." - Rio

  Tina St. John

  Long, Together, Wrecks

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• Football is the most important thing in my life, but I do have a life outside football and this is one part. The TV, the music, the fashion - it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Football, Fashion, Important

  "Television: Playing to the crowd". www.thetimes.co.uk. June 04, 2006.

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• I don't have Romário's technique, [Marc] Overmars' pace or [Patrick] Kluivert's strength. But I work harder than the others. I'm like the student who is not as clever, but revises for his exams and does OK in the end.

  Carles Puyol

  Clever, Hard Work, Technique

  "Puyol: Xavi wrong about Simeone's amazing Atletico Madrid" by Juan Carlos Gutierrez, www.goal.com. May 26, 2016.

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• When I went to Scotland to do another movie, I would sing with a coach up there and then when I went to New York I sang with a coach over there-I mean I've now sung with coaches in LA, New York, London, Glasgow, St Louis and Rio de Janeiro!

  Gerard Butler

  New York, Mean, Scotland

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• I am Alberto Del Rio, but you already knew that.

  Alberto Del Rio

  Wrestling

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• We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a powerful motive to feel sad. We should have envied her for having located someone without whom she so firmly felt she could not survive, beyond the gate let along in a bare student bedroom in a suburb of Rio. If she had been able to view her situation from a sufficient distance, she might have been able to recognise this as one of the high points in her life.

  Alain de Botton

  Powerful, Distance, Views

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• Barely awake and already starting in with the questions.You were alot easier to take when you were sleeping." - Rio to Dylan

  Tina St. John

  Sleep, Easier, Starting

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• What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or is superior to my human right to live on my land, or that of my family, my community, my nation, our nations, and to us as women?

  Winona LaDuke

  Zinc, Land, Giving

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• At the request of the Catholic Church, a three-day sex orgy to be held near Rio de Janeiro was cancelled last Friday. So instead I spent the weekend cleaning my apartment.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Friday, Sex

  "Saturday Night Live (TV Series) Reese Witherspoon/Alicia Keys". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• There are a lot of movies that take place internationally, like Kung Fu Panda portraying a little bit of China, and Ratatouille portraying a little about Paris, but it's hard to find a movie that portrays Rio or Brazil.

  Carlos Saldanha

  Paris, Kung Fu Panda, Pandas

  Source: collider.com

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• I made 'Rio Bravo' with John Wayne. It worked out pretty well and we both liked it, so a few years later we decided to make it again. Worked out pretty good that time, too.

  Howard Hawks

  Years, Wayne, Made

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• I love the Rio Grande Valley. I always say it's home - Texas is home. I've been out in L.A. a little over ten years, and I still get so excited when I go back home. It just feels comfortable; it makes me smile.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Home, Texas, Years

  "Rio Grande Valley Girl". Interview with Jeff Salamon, www.texasmonthly.com. October 2014.

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• If you are a Jedi, just understand something: people are going to be chasing you. The Jedi Council of every city you enter is going to be chasing you. I've been accosted by the Jedi Council in Rio and everywhere else.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Cities, People, Chasing

  "Gwendoline Christie Awakens". Interview with Samuel L. Jackson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 9, 2015.

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• If liberals think Iraqis are genetically incapable of pulling off even the most rudimentary form of democracy, why do they believe 50 million Mexicans will magically become good Americans, imbued in the nation's history and culture, upon crossing the Rio Grande? Maybe we should dunk Iraqis in the Rio and see what happens.

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, Thinking, Democracy

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• Coming from Paris, I'd really like to live in Rio. I think it's gotten better. It's not as violent. The economy is better. The middle class is rising.

  Vincent Cassel

  Thinking, Class, Paris

  Source: collider.com

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• The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Mother, Country, Struggle

  "40thCconvention of the Islamic Society of North America [John Esposito recognized as the "Abu Taleb of Islam"]". www.campus-watch.org. September 6, 2004.

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• In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!

  Angie Dickinson

  Morning, Giving, Making Love

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• The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.

  Thomas Lennon

  Records, Firsts, My Own

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• Unfortunately, I don't usually get to see much outside the Olympics as I compete almost every day. I have been to Rio a few times and got a tour of the sites. It is a spectacular city.

  Usain Bolt

  Cities, Olympics, Site

  "Usain Bolt Reveals His Fantasy Relay Team & When He’s Hanging up His Spikes". Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. August 15, 2016.

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• Malaysia didn't end up winning any gold medals at the Rio Olympics, but had set new records and brought the nation closer, so keep going.

  Azran Osman Rani

  Winning, Gold, Records

  Source: sea.askmen.com

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• Rio would be my last Olympics.

  Usain Bolt

  Would Be, Olympics, Lasts

  "Q&A with Usain Bolt: Protests, doping scandals, post-track life ... and wings". Interview, www.espn.co.uk. September 24, 2016.

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• In Brazil, there is a fear and a denial of our past. Downtown Rio used to display the history of colonialism in Brazil. They had beautiful buildings and theaters, and there was a bakery that was threatened to be demolished, but people insisted against it. They laid down in front of it and said, "You're going to have to go over my body to destroy it." It frustrates me when I see people on Facebook posing in front of old buildings while on vacation, because they could've posed in front of equally beautiful buildings at home in Rio.

  Sonia Braga

  Beautiful, Home, Past

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• You see all these old buildings [in Rio] going down or catching fire overnight, and it is so sad. I am very connected with these buildings because they are our history. It is the only one that we have.

  Sonia Braga

  Fire, Old Buildings, Catching

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• The beach in Tel-Aviv I went to, it even looks and feels a little bit like Rio de Janeiro. Some other places are very European and I just like it. I thought it would be fun but it's a lot better than that. It's a lot more relaxed and a lot of fun, and I feel very secure, and I would tell my friends they should come here when they plan a vacation. Not only the history.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Beach, Fun, Vacation

  Source: www.bloodyelbow.com

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